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2022–2023 GSA-USGS Congressional

Science Fellow Announced

GSA and the U.S. Geological Survey are Council on Science and Technology to communicate up-to-date
pleased to announce that Dr. Hannah Palmer science on wildfire to state policymakers. Palmer also served as
will serve as the 2022–2023 GSA-USGS the co-director of the Santa Rosa Junior College–Bodega Marine
Congressional Science Fellow. She will Laboratory Internship Program in 2019–2020 during which she led
spend a year working in the office of Senator a program to provide local community college students with oppor-
Tammy Baldwin (D-WI). tunities for research experience and professional development.
Palmer is a climate and environmental Following her Ph.D., Palmer was awarded the University of
scientist dedicated to conducting science in California Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University
service of the public and leveraging science of California, Merced. In this role, she investigated how wildfire
Hannah Palmer to inform decision making. Her scientific severity impacts the biogeochemistry of landscapes following wild-
research focuses on investigating the biogeochemistry of a chang- fire to both understand effects of modern fire as well as to improve
ing world, impacts of environmental change on ecosystems, and how we understand wildfire in the past. Palmer recently served
human dimensions of global change. as an American Geophysical Union Thriving Earth Exchange
Palmer earned her B.S. from the University of California, Los Community Science Fellow in which she worked to connect scien-
Angeles, in marine biology and her Ph.D. in earth and planetary tists and community leaders to solve local challenges.
sciences from the University of California, Davis. In her doctoral Palmer enjoys taking on new challenges as she has continually
research, she utilized the paleorecord to understand biogeochemical worked to build new collaborations, investigate diverse study sys-
and ecosystem change across systems and time scales. Specifically, tems, interact across organizations, and to link science and policy.
she focused on investigating marine sediment records to understand When she is not working, she enjoys trail running, baking and
oceanographic change and ecosystem responses to change through eating delicious goods, jumping in the ocean, and spending time
the past 12,000 years. with friends, old and new. She is eager to learn from her experi-
As a graduate student, she served as the University of California ence as a Geological Society of America Congressional Science
Center Sacramento Presidential Graduate Opportunities for Fellow and to continue to work to bridge the gap between science
Leadership Development Fellow, working with the California and policy.

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